Meet Anna Cleveland, Fashion's New Favorite Girl

He may be an indie London designer, but Giles Deacon has a long history of launching fashion's new faces: Gigi Hadid, Behati Prinsloo, and Erin Heatherton have all hit his runway before almost anyone else's.

This season was no exception, with veteran style stars like Jessica Stam and Lily Donaldson walking in Deacon's dark and bewitching collection alongside promising newbies.

And then there was the string of fashion royalty threading through the room: Edie Campbell and her little sister Olympia were on the catwalk, Lady Mary Charteris (niece of Daphne Guinness and mentee of Isabella Blow) and Cara Delevingne were in the front row, and Kendall Jenner made a striking entrance in a black lace swing dress that any coven would covet.

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"The girl in this show, she's not a robot," Deacon explained backstage. "We really wanted the models to have character and a strong presence. That's what Katie [Grand, his longtime stylist] and I looked for when we cast them, we wanted girls with real personality!"

Chief among them: Anna Cleveland, the 24-year-old daughter of Salvador Dali muse and Halston house model Pat Cleveland, who closed the show while voguing (really) down the runway in a multi-tiered, photo print taffeta gown. She hugged doorways. She slinked around chairs. She posed (and posed, and posed) with the force of a thousand Tyras. And when she was through, the audience (including Gwendoline Christie, Laura Carmichael, and Yasmin Le Bon) literally screamed with approval. Put her name on your list; she's going to be a very big deal.